Waste collector Elvijs starts his workday at 3 a.m.
Latvian news portal TVNET profiles waste collector Elvijs, whose workday begins around 3 a.m. With a colleague he empties hundreds of containers a day, sometimes finding lost rings and money.
Latvian news portal TVNET has published a story about the everyday work of a waste collector, a job most residents see little of. Its subject is Elvijs, a waste collector who sets off for work at about three in the morning, while most people are still asleep.
Over the course of the day, Elvijs and a colleague empty hundreds of waste containers. According to the article's introduction, the containers sometimes hold more than rubbish: lost rings, money and other unexpected items end up in them too.
In the headline, the waste collector speaks candidly about what goes on behind the scenes and stresses that the job is not as simple as it looks from the outside. The piece aims to show what the profession is really like day to day.
More detail about Elvijs's working day and experience is given in the full TVNET article.
